While Zuma was delivering his January 8 speech, the EFF leader was giving one of his own; insisting that Jacob Zuma is anti-education and that white people feel threatened by educated black people.

Zuma, his family and their loyalists are anti-education. This was the message from EFF leader Julius Malema after checking in on incarcerated student activist Bonginkosi Khanyile — who was arrested for assault and possession of a dangerous weapon during last year’s #FeesMustFall protests –, at the Westville Correctional Services Centre in Durban.

“We don’t want to be like Jacob Zuma. We don’t want to be like Zuma’s family, we want to be educated, that is what we are fighting for. Even Khulubuse is not educated. We don’t want anything that has got to do with that family. We are rejecting anything that represents Jacob Zuma. Lack of education is what represents Jacob Zuma,” Juju told supporters.

Malema also took aim at former SABC employee Hlaudi Motsoeneng — who famously said that being too educated is a bad thing — saying the refused education as if it were a “biting animal.”

It didn’t take long for the EFF leader to shift the focus from government to white people, saying that whites feared educated black people, as it would mean an end to domestic workers and other forms of informal labour.

“It is threatening white privilege, white supremacy and capitalism because when you are educated, who is going to be a domestic worker in the house of a white man? Who is going to provide the cheap labour?”

Juju added that South Africa should aim to be like Zimbabwe and that, once the “illegal sanctions” crippling the Zimbabwean economy are defeated they will be the “capital of Africa.”